From my own personal experience in the programing industry, i find
it questionable that Python actually surpassed Perl in terms of use
in companies. Python is used in, Google, as everybody knows, but where
else? Perl is used in, umm, about every company except Google (and
probably Google too! in fact).

A quick search in monster.com, i find that perl returns 2673 results, and Python returns 879 results. Perlers, you still safe!